China announced up to $70 billion in semiconductor and AI subsidies during the Two Sessions - one of the largest government chip programs in history, aimed at full self-sufficiency as US export controls tighten.
China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.
Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at MWC Barcelona - 8,192 NPUs delivering 8 ExaFLOPS - marking its first overseas showcase of the AI supercomputer that directly targets Nvidia's cluster dominance.
Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.
Awesome Agents launches a dedicated Hardware section with detailed spec pages for 21 GPUs, TPUs, and AI accelerators - from datacenter flagships to home lab favorites.
DeepSeek V4 is an unreleased trillion-parameter MoE model with ~32B active parameters, native multimodal capabilities, a 1M-token context window, and optimization for Huawei Ascend chips - expected in the first week of March 2026.
